field ambulance

noun

military a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital

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Each field ambulance was opened out for training purposes as well as for care of the sick.

I was known personally to all the doctors in our field-ambulance.

To the sorrow of all his comrades, however, he died in the Field Ambulance.

The Romans also made use of military hospitals and had established a rude but very practical field-ambulance service.

She says she's not sure whether she'll let me go to the Field Ambulance meetings, though; she's afraid I'll catch cold.

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